WoW Wednesday: Influential WoW is Influential

The World of Warcraft has been around for more than a decade, and even now it continues to exert its influence on the MMO industry, not for a single moment being as irrelevant as the last random F2P title you played for five minutes. Whether you like it or not, WoW is still going strong despite its drop in subscriptions since its peak, and with Warlords of Draenor dropping soon, it’ll be even less of an issue. It does make me wonder though; how has WoW lasted this long and still this powerful?
(PC, World of Warcraft)